Improvement in lamp-extinguishers



L. SELLIN G, Lamp-Extinguishers.

Patented June 9,1874.

UNITED STATES PATENT CFFIGE.

LOUIS SELLING, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT |N LAMP-EXTINGUISHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 151,92 1 dated June 9,1874; application filed February 24, 1874.

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs SELLING, of Detroit, in the county of Wayneand State of 'Michigan, have invented an Improvement in plate, with acord secured to the outer end' thereof having a small metallic ballsuspended thereto, the said ball being supported by a bracket slippedover the collar of the fount so long as the lamp isin an uprightposition; but when inclined or overturned the ball falls ofi itssupport, and, through the cord, pulls down the long arm of the lever,which brings the hood over the wick to extinguish the flame. Thisattachment is applicable to the various forms of burners now in market.

Figure -1 is a side elevation of the device as attached to an ordinarykerosene-lamp. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same. Fig. 3 is adetached perspective view of the hood and lever, and the base-plate towhich it is attached. In the drawing, A represents a lamp-fount, onwhich is secured a burner, B, of which 0 is the wick-tube and D thecone, secured to the base of the burner by supporting-clips rising froma base-ring, a, Fig. 1. E is a plate slotted to slip over the wick-tubeand rest upon the ring a, to which it is secured by bending over itclips on the edges of said ring. At

each end of the plate there is turned up an ear, I), in which ears thearms 0 c, at the lower corners of a hood, F, are pivoted. This hood is aplate of sheet-brass curled over at the top and ends, and is of suchradius that when thrown up against the wick-tube the hood will inclosethe upper end of the wick and extinguish the flame. The hood is operatedby a lever, Gr, pivoted at d to the other side of the plate. The innerand shorter arm of this lever is a yoke or frame, which passes aroundback of the hood, whose end edges are embraced between the extremity ofthe yoke and a stud, c, at each end, so that as the long arm is presseddown the hood will be swung up against the wick-tube otherwise the hoodwill fall back and away of its own gravity. A small spherical weight, H,is suspended from the long arm of the lever by a cord, f, which passesthrough one of the air-holes in the burnerbase, the weight beingsupported on a ringbracket, g, securedv about the fount-collar by aspring-clamp.

If the lamp be tilted out of its proper position this weight will fall0d the bracket and pull down the lever to swing the hood over the wick,and thus extinguish the flame.

I do not claim, broadly, the use of a hood to extinguish the flame nordo I claim a lever and ball to actuate the said hood; but

WVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The combination, with a lamp-burner havin g a flat wicktube, of theplate E having, the hood F and lever G pivoted thereto, as described,the cord f, weight H, and a supportin g-bracket, the several partsconstructed and arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

LOUIS SELLING.

Witnesses:

0. E.' HUESTIS, H. S. SPRAGUE.

